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By 1800 the manor was inhabited by some of the poorest people in the city, and the court of the manor has been discontinued. The only advantage its poor inhabitants possessed was that they were exempt from the jurisdiction of other courts, so they could elude the clutches of the bailiff by flying for
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The manor consisted of only a few streets in the neighbourhood of St. Patrick's
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In return for the support of the Lord of the Manor, or to alleviate certain hardships suffered by
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prevail here, but the goods as well as the persons of law-breakers were secure within the Dean's
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officials. But from the beginning of the 19th century it was occupied by miserable tenement houses, and was reckoned one of the poorest districts in the city of Dublin.
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